Projects - Incite at Columbia University

Projects

Where ambitious questions meet unexpected collaborations.

Featured Projects

  • go to the The Elders Project project
    The Elders Project Capturing the stories of elders who have shaped America—from Civil Rights activists to tribal leaders to survivors of Stonewall—before they’re lost to history. Funded by Emerson Collective
  • go to the Movements Against Mass Incarceration project
    Movements Against Mass Incarceration

    Building the United States' first archive to center the political ideas and movement-building of incarcerated people.

     Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
  • go to the Obama Presidency Oral History project
    Obama Presidency Oral History

    Creating a comprehensive oral history of the Obama years with over 450 officials, activists, organizers, and extraordinary people from all walks of life.

     Funded by Columbia University's Office of the President

Ongoing Projects

  • go to Afro-Nordic Feminisms
    Afro-Nordic Feminisms
    Establishing a space for Afro-Nordic scholarship, identity, culture, social movements, and social justice organizing.
  • go to Alternative Modes of Being
    Alternative Modes of Being
    Bringing premodern knowledge traditions from Asia and Africa into dialogue with scholars focused on crises of capitalism, colonialism, and climate chaos.
  • go to Arts and Activism in the Americas
    Arts and Activism in the Americas
    Examining how arts and activism respond to political repression in the Americas.
  • go to Carnegie Corporation of New York Oral History
    Carnegie Corporation of New York Oral History
    Documenting the growth of American philanthropy through the institutional memories of a leading grant-making organization. In partnership with Carnegie Corporation of New York
  • go to Closing the Gap Between Trustworthy and Trusted AI
    Closing the Gap Between Trustworthy and Trusted AI
    Jumpstarting conversations about trust in AI and its impact on trust in institutions. Funded by Columbia University
  • go to Covid-19 and Trust in Science
    Covid-19 and Trust in Science
    Documenting the experiences of Post-Covid Syndrome patients in the United States, Brazil, and China. Funded by Meta
  • go to Criminal Legal Algorithms, Technology, and Expertise
    Criminal Legal Algorithms, Technology, and Expertise
    Investigating how carceral algorithms destabilize work practices, legal frameworks, and the legitimacy of expert authority.
  • go to Everyday Mobility and Movement Segregation
    Everyday Mobility and Movement Segregation
    Understanding racial segregation—not by where people live—but by how they move about the city.
  • go to Extractive Media: Infrastructures and Aesthetics of Depletion
    Extractive Media: Infrastructures and Aesthetics of Depletion
    Reinventing research questions on resource extraction across the disciplines of humanities and social sciences.
  • go to Healthcare Unionization Study
    Healthcare Unionization Study
    Evaluating the causal impact of labor organizing on health and labor market outcomes in the healthcare sector.  Funded by JPAL-MIT, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Urban Institute, and Washington Center for Equitable Growth
  • go to HomeLab NYC
    HomeLab NYC
    Uniting storytellers, artists, researchers, and others in a collective exploration of the concept of "home" in New York City.
  • go to Insurgent Domesticities
    Insurgent Domesticities
    Interrogating the politics of home through histories of solidarity, disobedience, stealth, and militancy, from the scale of the clothesline to that of the state.
  • go to Listening Tables
    Listening Tables
    Creating spaces on Columbia University's campus to navigate conflicts with mutual respect, empathy, and a commitment to rebuilding trust.
  • go to Local Entrepreneurship and Urban Inequality
    Local Entrepreneurship and Urban Inequality
    Examining the two-way relationship between local entrepreneurship and neighborhood conditions.
  • go to Logic(s) Magazine
    Logic(s) Magazine
    Drawing in voices and perspectives that remain outside, under-explored, and essential to thinking critically about technology from below. Funded by Ford Foundation, Omidyar Network, and MacArthur Foundation
  • go to Motherhood and Technology
    Motherhood and Technology
    Exploring technological innovations that have radically transformed the biological and social experience of motherhood in recent decades.
  • go to Mott Haven History Keepers
    Mott Haven History Keepers
    Investing in grassroots public humanities infrastructure in the South Bronx. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities
  • go to NYC Covid-19 Oral History, Narrative, and Memory Project
    NYC Covid-19 Oral History, Narrative, and Memory Project
    Documenting New York City’s experience of the Covid-19 pandemic. Funded by the National Science Foundation and the Board of Trustees of the American Assembly
  • go to Obama Scholars Global Leadership Study
    Obama Scholars Global Leadership Study
    Tracing the life trajectories and networks of global leaders in a ten-year longitudinal study. Funded by Columbia University
  • go to Pedagogy of Listening Lab
    Pedagogy of Listening Lab
    Bringing together faculty, researchers, and students from different disciplines at to advance understandings of pedagogies of listening. Funded by Columbia University's Office of the Provost
  • go to Racial Inequality and Financial Access
    Racial Inequality and Financial Access
    Examining the nature, precursors, and consequences of racial differences in access to financial services.
  • go to Recovery
    Recovery
    Navigating the concept of recovery in social and political life through fields of governance, biomedicine, climate change, and economics.
  • go to Refugee Cities
    Refugee Cities
    Bringing urban studies and refugee studies scholars together to examine how refugees settle and live in urban spaces.
  • go to Seeds of Diaspora
    Seeds of Diaspora
    Approaching cultural landscapes and their evolution by examining non-native plants in New York City.
  • go to Trust in Autonomous Labs
    Trust in Autonomous Labs
    Exploring the implications of autonomous labs in knowledge and society.

Completed Projects

  • go to Aryeh Neier Oral History
    Aryeh Neier Oral History
    Exploring the life, influence, and legacy of a prolific human rights activist. Funded by Open Society Foundations
  • go to Averted Lynching Project
    Averted Lynching Project
    Examining the social, political, and historical conditions that trigger the formation of violent mobs and analyzing factors that deter them.
  • go to Columbia Life Histories Project
    Columbia Life Histories Project
    Cultivating a more inclusive environment at Columbia University through oral history. Funded by Columbia University
  • go to Columbia Privacy Lab
    Columbia Privacy Lab
    Conducting research, providing instruction, and developing privacy tools for the university and surrounding community. Funded by the Board of Trustees of the American Assembly
  • go to Domestic Health Index
    Domestic Health Index
    Developing a domestic health index using data from wearable technologies. Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • go to Facing Whiteness
    Facing Whiteness
    Exploring how Americans who identify as white understand their own racial and ethnic identities. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Chicago Media Project
  • go to Grocery Delivery Workers Project
    Grocery Delivery Workers Project
    Advancing understandings of the grocery delivery workforce using sales data, worker reviews, surveys, and interviews. Funded by United Food and Commercial Workers
  • go to Hothouse Solutions
    Hothouse Solutions
    Climate change has historically been ignored as a top issue in the US press. That’s changing amid unprecedented concern about the climate crisis among millions of people. A focus on solutions is more urgent than ever. 
  • go to Human Rights Campaign Oral History
    Human Rights Campaign Oral History
    Funded by Human Rights Campaign
  • go to Immigration Attitudes
    Immigration Attitudes
    Understanding whether and how exposure to information about immigration affects Americans’ attitudes. Funded by the Southern Poverty Law Center
  • go to Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality Oral History
    Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality Oral History
    Detailing the history of feminism at Columbia University through the memories of an historic organization. Funded by Columbia University's Office of the President
  • go to Measuring Liberal Arts
    Measuring Liberal Arts
    Using a novel dataset to measure of the degree to which American colleges and universities offer a liberal arts education. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
  • go to Mellon Interdisciplinary Fellows
    Mellon Interdisciplinary Fellows
    Bringing together over 200 graduate students in interdisciplinary training across the humanities and sciences. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
  • go to MyVote Project
    MyVote Project
    Developing a nonpartisan voter engagement model driven by youth in New York City. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and New York City Community Trust
  • go to Organizing for New York
    Organizing for New York
    Conducting the first comprehensive study of organizers across social justice struggles in New York City. Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • go to Phoenix House Oral History
    Phoenix House Oral History
    Capturing the story of how Phoenix House transformed drug rehabilitation in America. Funded by Phoenix House Foundation
  • go to Reclaiming Lost Data on American Racial Inequality
    Reclaiming Lost Data on American Racial Inequality
    Producing a big-data genealogy of the African-American past by combining algorithmic linking techniques with historical and genealogical methods. Funded by the Russell Sage Foundation
  • go to Research and Empirical Analysis of Labor Migration
    Research and Empirical Analysis of Labor Migration
    Addressing gaps in knowledge about temporary labor migration to the Gulf through ethnography, surveys, and workshops. Funded by New York University Abu Dhabi Institute
  • go to Robert Rauschenberg Oral History
    Robert Rauschenberg Oral History
    Documenting the American avant-garde movement and the conditions that enabled it through the life and work of one of its most renowned artists. Funded by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
  • go to September 11, 2001 Oral Histories
    September 11, 2001 Oral Histories
    Capturing a comprehensive, longitudinal memory of responses to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Funded by the National Science Foundation, Rockefeller Fund, and Columbia University
  • go to The Taliban Sources Project
    The Taliban Sources Project
    Collating, digitizing, and translating primary source documents associated with the Afghan Taliban movement. Funded by Thesigers
  • go to TrustWorkers
    TrustWorkers
    Partnering with community healthcare workers to explore how trust is obtained, repaired, and built. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
  • go to Tunisian Transition Oral History
    Tunisian Transition Oral History
    Documenting the transition to democracy in Tunisia from the perspective of prominent transition leaders in the technical government and in civil society. Funded by Columbia University's Office of the President
  • go to Understanding Autism
    Understanding Autism
    Understanding the factors that have led to an increase in autism prevalence over the last four decades. Funded by the National Institutes of Health

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